10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TARSHISH»
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Tarshish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Tarshish: An Island in the Stream of Consciousness
The metaphrastic use of the word Tarshish is what allows Jonah to go ahead in
time. The city of Tarshish was never Jonah's intended destination. As a metonym,
the word Tarshish does make a rational explanation for the story of Jonah.
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Life in Biblical Israel
uncertain, prompting many scholarly suggestions.174 Tarshish ships are
frequently associated with both maritime trade and metals. Tarshish may refer to,
or perhaps be the namesake for, the Phoenician colony of Tartessus in
southwestern ...
Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager, 2001
3
A Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature
26), 'Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind,' if we suppose
merchant vessels working eastwardly up the Mediterranean towards Tyre,
encountering an east or rather north-east gale, which is a very violent and
destructive wind to ...
John Kitto, William Lindsay Alexander, 1876
4
Mercer Dictionary of the Bible
Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard. TARSHISH TEACHING TEMPLE
SCROLL TEMPLE/TEMPLES TEMPLE/TEMPLES TEMPLE/TEMPLES
TEMPTATION IN THE NT. TAMMUZ TARSUS and Assyro/Baby Ionian culture,
whose consort was ...
Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard, 1990
5
The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles
1 Kgs 10:22, speaking of Solomon, relates “that the king had ships of Tarshish at
sea. . . . Once every three years the ships of Tarshish would come, bearing gold
and silver.” Similarly, we are told that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, built “ships of ...
6
The Lost Children of
Tarshish
A group of Israeli children are saved from a sinking ship and reach a deserted island where they confront dangers and challenges with imagination and bravery.
Ehud Tokatly, Ehud Ṭuḳṭali, Shmuel Klitsner, 1990
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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical ...
Nor is it impossible that a part of the trade of Tarshish lay in these and in other
animals ; for we certainly know that Solomon's ships brought that prince apes and
peacocks : the lions may have been caught in Africa and conveyed in ships of ...
John McClintock, James Strong, 1894
Tarshish and Carthage These various modern attempts at localizing Tarshish
have no link with the identifications made in Antiquity, in the Graeco-Roman
period. The oldest known attempt appears in the Greek Septuagint translation of
the ...
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A Dictionary of the Bible: Pleroma-Zuzim
It is impossible to draw any inferences about the situation of Tarshish from this
parallelism ; certainly vicinity to the Arabian countries Slieba and Dedan is not
indicated (cf. Gn 101). — Ps 7210 quite analogously places the kings of Tarshish
and ...
James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Andrew Bruce Davidson, 1902
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Dictionary of the Bible: Pleroma-Zuzim
It is impossible to draw any inferences about the situation of Tarshish from this
parallelism ; certainly vicinity to the Arabian countries Sheba and Dedan is not
indicated (cf. Gn 101). — Ps 7210 quite analogously places the kings of Tarshish
...
James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Andrew Bruce Davidson, 1911
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TARSHISH»
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Tarshish is used in the context of the following news items.
Shyamal Majumdar: The fear of success
Jonah decided to evade this assignment and headed to Tarshish instead, a place where he thought he could escape the presence of God and the assignment ... «Business Standard, Jun 15»
“Papa, if God wants to bring us peace and light, why did he help the …
Oh great, I thought, now I've got to explain how Tarshish was a six-hour jet plane ride across the Mediterranean from Nineveh—not to mention the fact that the ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
Bill Cosby and the women claiming a history of sexual assaults
Joan Tarshish came forward on 17 November 2014 saying that Cosby drugged her and sexually abused her on two separate occasions. She told CNN's Don ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
The Word of the Lord
3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and ... «Rejoice Magazine, Nov 14»
The lonely life of the subversive Israeli leftist
And if the choice is between the devil and the deep blue sea, then we decided long ago: We are staying in Israel and not fleeing to Tarshish or Berlin from the ... «Haaretz, Oct 14»
You Can Run from God, but you Can't Hide
3But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went ... «Crossmap, Oct 14»
Netanyahu's misguided prophecy
Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repentest ... «Haaretz, Oct 14»
Around globe, Jewish community celebrates holiest day of the year
Instead, Jonah attempted to flee to Tarshish on a ship. En route, a large storm nearly capsized the boat. The sailors blamed Jonah and tossed him overboard, ... «azcentral.com, Oct 14»
On the Book of Jonah, and My Mother
A mention of Tarshish, then the sea and a whale, and finally a lot of Nineveh and death and a tree that appears from nowhere and is then eaten by a worm. «Tablet Magazine, Oct 14»
ISIS Aimed at Ideals When They Destroyed Jonah's Tomb
Jonah sought to escape from the mission that had been given him. He boarded a ship bound for Tarshish, he told the sailors that he was “fleeing from the service ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Aug 14»
